I am an Agile Coach with Rally Software, and I have worked with dozens of organizations and teams to help them adopt and adapt Agile practices to improve the way they develop software. I have been particularly passionate about the Product Owner role, and how organizations build collaborative teams to manage evolving backlogs to deliver value. I want to help them harness agile practices–including retrospectives–to make that process effective.

I live in Boulder, so I'm excited about “hiding away” in my own community. I know how beautiful a place Boulder is for reflection.

My number one goal for the week is to share and learn new techniques for effective retrospectives. I am hoping to see in action some of the tools that I've only read about.

I'd also like to explore organizational and executive-level retrospectives–the sort we run to reflect on the organizational change of moving to agile. What is the same (compared to team-level iteration retrospectives), and what is different in that context?